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The logic fails on this premise: > On the other hand, from the view of an individual that has done something wrong at some point in his or her life and that ha

The logic fails on this premise: > On the other hand, from the view of an individual that has done something wrong at some point in his or her life and that has through either a fine or a jail sentence paid their debt to society it is kind of annoying that they’ve been declared pretty much un-employable by google or one of their lesser competitors. The error here is in the behaviour of the society in general. If you use the right to be forgotten as the correction mean, then you prevent society from evolving and changing this wrong behaviour. We are entering an era of increasing information, society needs to adapt, and we must allow it to adapt, painful as it may be.

lagadu 11y ago
> We are entering an era of increasing information, society needs to adapt, and we must allow it to adapt, painful as it may be. I've a nagging feeling that I've misunderstood your post somehow, if so let me apologize in advance for the remainder of my post: That's exactly what society is doing: adapting. Previously information wasn't as accessible as it is nowadays so society adapted to the new situation, in this particular case by enacting laws that further protect people's privacy.
- sergiosgc 11y ago
  No. The right to be forgotten law is not an adaptation, it is an attempt to cling on to the past. In the past your personal history was difficult to dig. Nowadays it is archived on the Internet for anyone to search and read. These laws try to emulate the past environment in the new information age. Instead, I think we should let information flow. People will adapt to having lots of information available, and the effect of negative signals, that people are so afraid of today, will probably be minor. As an example: who cares if you smoked pot in college when 60% of people also have an online record of smoking pot.
  - samastur 11y ago
    No, it is an adaptation, but time will show how successful. Just as it does for every other. Adaptations are not only changes that succeed or that conform to the way you would like to see society evolve.
  - marrs 11y ago
    2 things: First, lots of people will care if you smoked pot. Or they won't, but they'll care instead about something else that today you think is innocuous. Second, you're talking revolution rather than evolution. That's always more disruptive and often more dangerous.
vidarh 11y ago
A lot of law exist as a recognition that society in general when people are left to their own devices can behave in ways we fairly generally agree are wrong, and that we know from experience we're not showing signs of evolving away from.
- sergiosgc 11y ago
  True. We are not, however, far along the road of having our lives exposed online for all to see. We're certainly not far enough to "(...) know from experience we're not showing signs of evolving away from [wrongful behaviours]".

lagadu 11y ago

> We are entering an era of increasing information, society needs to adapt, and we must allow it to adapt, painful as it may be. I've a nagging feeling that I've misunderstood your post somehow, if so let me apologize in advance for the remainder of my post: That's exactly what society is doing: adapting. Previously information wasn't as accessible as it is nowadays so society adapted to the new situation, in this particular case by enacting laws that further protect people's privacy.

sergiosgc 11y ago
No. The right to be forgotten law is not an adaptation, it is an attempt to cling on to the past. In the past your personal history was difficult to dig. Nowadays it is archived on the Internet for anyone to search and read. These laws try to emulate the past environment in the new information age. Instead, I think we should let information flow. People will adapt to having lots of information available, and the effect of negative signals, that people are so afraid of today, will probably be minor. As an example: who cares if you smoked pot in college when 60% of people also have an online record of smoking pot.
- samastur 11y ago
  No, it is an adaptation, but time will show how successful. Just as it does for every other. Adaptations are not only changes that succeed or that conform to the way you would like to see society evolve.
- marrs 11y ago
  2 things: First, lots of people will care if you smoked pot. Or they won't, but they'll care instead about something else that today you think is innocuous. Second, you're talking revolution rather than evolution. That's always more disruptive and often more dangerous.

vidarh 11y ago

A lot of law exist as a recognition that society in general when people are left to their own devices can behave in ways we fairly generally agree are wrong, and that we know from experience we're not showing signs of evolving away from.

sergiosgc 11y ago
True. We are not, however, far along the road of having our lives exposed online for all to see. We're certainly not far enough to "(...) know from experience we're not showing signs of evolving away from [wrongful behaviours]".